The second reading of the Immigration Bill took place in the House of Lords last Monday. The reading stretched over a seven-hour period during which the Peers discussed several aspects of the bill, including a lengthy discussion about the prospective problems facing overseas students due to the bill The
Earlier this week the London Student revealed that Imperial College has £785,000 indirectly invested in tobacco companies. This conflicts with the extensive cancer research done by Imperial academics.
The Chemistry and Materials Departments have shown a marked improvement from the number of final year students who have completed the National Student Survey.
The nominations for the Union’s Big Elections 2014 opened this Monday. These elections determine who will fill key roles at the Union during the 2014-15 academic year. Read to see a list of confirmed candidates!
The College is preparing to host top SF and fantasy writers at its annual convention, Picocon. This year award winning authors Sarah Pinborough and Charles Stross wILL...
Interesting points raised at Council
A new centre that collaborates with Dyson will be launching at Imperial in the Department of Computing, this will be the Dyson Robotics Laboratory.
On Tuesday a member of the Imperial College Christian Union’s (CU) committee sent an email to all members on their mailing list explaining that in their upcoming society elections only candidates chosen by the current committee...
There have been a series of unpleasant events related to student protests at the University of London which has resulted in calls for Adrian Smith to resign his position as vice chancellor.
The government has announced that it will be cutting £946 million from its annual grant to English Higher Education Institutions.
London Student investigation found Imperial College London has the most invested in the arms industry. Compared with ten other London universities, Imperial’s holdings in defence companies comes out on top with investments totalling £3.9m.
Circassia, a spinoff company from an Imperial lab discovery in 2006 has announced that it plans to float on the London Stock Exchange. It hopes to raise approximately £175 million in the initial public offering.